Re: Prism Nitro XM Support

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:56:59AM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The latest firmware from Conexant doesn't support Nitro XM.  This
> performance enhancement feature is really very important for L2 QoS.  It
> introduces new compression technique, concatenation of multiple small
> packets, piggyback acks (for eliminating redundant messages), packet
> bursting (original Nitro), and direct linking (very good feature for P2P
> communication in a BSS).  Conexant supports this feature in their Soft
> MAC driver, which means, most of the WiFi functionalities are given to
> the host PC.  I'm not sure if Conexant will release a firmware to
> support the features, maybe, the group could talk with the Conexant guys
> to verify this.  If they would not be supporting XM in their firmware,
> maybe we could add this to the prism54 driver's functionality. :p 

If it's done by the new driver and not the firmware then we should be 
able to support it. However this may mean we won't be able to support
these features until we write a driver that supports the new firmware
(smaller firmware, which allows for code on the driver).

	Luis

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rodel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] Prism Nitro XM Support
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:27:40PM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has Conexant informed the group about Prism Nitro XM support?  Is this
> a
> > firmware upgrade where we can just "setoid" to enable this feature?
> > Does the group have initiatives to support "soft/thin mac" chipsets? 
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Rodel Miguel
> 
> Prism54 supports Nitro. Not sure what Nitro "XM" is. Prism Nitro is
> certainly just a firmware enhancement. If Nitro "XM" is also a firmware
> enhancement then we can support it... we'd just need info on the
> OID(s) to set and what value(s) to set it to.
> 
> PS: To all other devs: I'm back from vacation and now painting my new
> place. I also started a new job. Sorry for the delay in my responses but
> I've 
> just been really busy right now. As soon as I get my place painted I
> should be able to start working on the driver again. 
> 
> PSS: Feyd: re the USB driver files: you have cvs access, just cvs add *.
> 
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